Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-07-27
Straps aud fafts.
The Hon. r. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia,
who WIGS limited States Senator from that

State before the war, aprOmlneHt cauuiudce
for the Democratic nomination for Presl-
dent in the Charleston Convention OF 1861,
and State Treasurer since the war, died on
Tuesday of last week. He has been very
poor O flate wears and was in needy cir
cumstances until President Cleveland ap-
pointed him to q small collectorship.
= Close upon the heels of the news of the
earthquake at Bavispe, come details of a
still greater calamity at Bacariac, a town
twenty miles from Bavispe. 1t had before
the catastrophe 1000 inhabitants. When
Bavispe was destroyed the town was badly
shaken up and most of the inhabitants
fed. Since then the town of Bacariac has
been visited by a succession Of shocks that
have reduced the whole town to ruins.
Most of the people escaped, as they fed
the country terror-stricken on the first dis
turbance.
- Says the Southern Mwchman: The
secular newspapers are often abused for
publishing accounts of crime. There is no
doubt that some Of these organs are too
much inclined to give sensational and ex-
aggerated accounts of evils, but we believe
the work done by the secular paper a
grand one. There is no greater rebuke to
statement of facts in the newspapers. To
hide gross and public sin is to encourage
it. Many a man has been made to pause
when contemplating sin, because he feared
his crime would be laid before the public.
He who reads the newspapers sees the
wickedness of the human heart; he who
reads the Bible sees the remedy. 81.
"A colored tenant on John D. Tyler's
plantation, in Lancaster county, S. c., has
received from one of his kinsmen, who
went to Liberia OF the Azor, a letter in
which he pleads for means to return to
South Carolina. He says he and his COM
panions will enter into solemn obligations
to work the balance of their days tor any
persons who will pay their way back to
this country. He represents himself and
others who went with him from Lancas-
ter county as being in a most pitiable con-
dition, bordering on starvation. He says
they haven't as much as seen a piece OF
meat in twelve months. AS for bread they
hardly get enough to keep soul and body
together. There is some talk in Lancas-
ter county of raising funds by popular
people to return to their former homes.
Since 1881 the population of Ireland
has deceased 5000, it being considerably
inhabitants than it had at the time of the
union in 1900. The birth-rate is the low
est in Europe. In twenty-one towns, in
Guiding Dublin, and in eight counties, the
deaths within the quarter exceeded the
births, and this during a period when the
registrar general %pronounces the health of
the people to be on the whole good, and
the death rate belowthe average. Poland
has increased in less than twenty years
from 5,500,000 to over 7,000,0 600. Even
Switzerland, half mountain and forest, and
with no city as large as Cork, has now a
larger population per square mile than
Ireland. The country is perfectly we'll
able to support in comfort a larger popu-
lation than it now contains, and there is
no other country in Europe which is no
increasing in population more or less
rapidly.
An explosion OF ten thousand pounds
of powder, stored in the powder house
of the Chicago, Wilmington and Vermil-
ion Coal Company, at Streator, ILL.,, occur
Every dwelling on the south and west
shattered, and in most cases entirely de-
molished. Not a vestige of the powder
house remains, while where it stood is an
excavation about sixty feet long, forty feet
wide and twenty feet deep. Only one per-
son was fatally injured, a tramp sleeping in
car near the powder house: Six others
wereseriously hurt, while minor casualties
will reach nearly one hundred. There
were forty-hve dwellings almost totally
demolished, and there is not a plate glass
window left in the business part of the city.
1t is impossible at this time to estimate
the loss, but it will probably reach $4,000
Or 800, 900.
The Car has sanctioned the beginning
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to connect st. Petersburg with Viadivostok
on the Pacific. 1t is not to be a cOntinu-
Gus line, however. 1t is to be rather a
succession of railroads connecting naviga-
BILE rivers so as to form a line of through
transportation, partially for commercial,
but principally for military objects. An
American engineer suggests a branch road
to Behring Strait, and offers to build a
bridge Over the narrow strip of water that
parts the old world from the new. With
the help of a line running from our North
ern Pacific Railroad up through Alaska, a
tie of steel would henceforth unite the
greatest republic the world ever saw
with the greatest autocracy. The London
Times is amazed at the proposition to
bridge the Strait, but admits that Ameri-
can engineers can do anything. Fifty
days will take a traveller around the globe
whiSh III PiOyCSGCo AOoOo 1 Ill pAClOus
Senator Lucas, who received the certif-
cate from the Governor of West Virgin
ia as the dd interim United States Senator
before the extra session of the Legislature,
will contest the seat of Senator Faulkner,
who defeated Camden at the extra session
called to attend to other business. His
case rests upon the legality of an election
at the called session. Another Democrat
ic Senator, Hearst, of California, will prob
ably have to meet the charge of bribery
when he presents his credentials. Sena-
tors Turpie, O Indiana, and Pasco, of Flori-
da, will also be compelled to meet the
charge that the Legislatures electing them
were not organized according to law.
The change of State constitutions in the
latter case is the occasion of the trouble,
the Legislature being organized partly
under the old and partly under the new
constitution. In the Indiana and Cali
fornia cases only have the Republicans
any chance of gaining a seat, and that
chance is remote, so far as California is
concerned.
- Oscar J. Harvey, the Treasury Depart
ment forger, was arraigned in the District
Criminal Court at Washington on the
Goth, and pleaded guilty to the charge set
forth in the Indictment. He was sem
fenced by Judge Montgomery to twelve
years imprisonment at hard labor in the
Albany penitentiary. In passing sentence,
Judge Montgomery said, while the situa-
ton of the prisoners family appealed to
him, the protection of society was to be
considered and an example must be made.
There was but one way to stop crime, and
that was to punish it. The prisoner had
robbed the government, not through q
sudden impulse, but through a scheme
pursued for months. The reasons urged